Jennings Creek Wildfire along the New Jersey-New York border
5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Nighttime Microphysics RGB + daytime True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site (above) displayed the nocturnal thermal signatures (darker shades of violet) of a few wildfires in the vicinity or the New Jersey-New York border — particularly that associated with the larger and persistent Jennings Creek Wildfire along the border — along with the distinct Jennings Creek Wildfire smoke plume that moved southeast across the New York City area and adjacent offshore waters during the day on 09 November 2024. The fire caused some local road closures, and there was 1 firefighter fatality.
GOES-16 Visible images with an overlay of the Fire Mask derived product (below) also displayed the Jennings Creek Wildfire thermal signature and smoke plume — and plots of Ceiling and Visibility showed that this smoke occasionally reduced the surface visibility to 4-6 miles at a few of the New York City area airports.
A Pilot Report over far northeast New Jersey at 1550 UTC (below) indicated the presence of heavy smoke (+FU) at an altitude of 1700 ft — which was restricting the flight-level visibility to 1-1/2 statute miles.
GOES-16 Aerosol Optical Depth values over the NYC area were occasionally at or slightly above 1.0, as depicted by darker red pixels (below).
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